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June 30, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
ICE's ERO Denver officers apprehended 16 noncitizens convicted of crimes with a sexual basis requiring them to register as sex offenders in the state of Colorado during a local enforcement effort from June 20 through 28.
June 29, 2023
|Narcotics
HSI San Juan special agents assigned to the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force, working in conjunction with the DEA, CBP's AMO San Juan Marine Unit, and the Puerto Rico Police Bureau seized approximately 328.9 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of $4.9 million.
June 28, 2023
|Child Exploitation
According to court documents, Joseph Zoll, 63, of Sanford, used an online chat and webcam application from his home in Maine to direct an individual in the Philippines to livestream a video of herself sexually abusing a prepubescent child.
June 28, 2023
|Narcotics
Lauretta Payce, 61, of Fontana, California, and Andrea Romo, 41, of Gardena, California, were convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
June 28, 2023
|Covid-19, Cyber Crimes
Acting Special Agent in Charge of HSI Kansas City Taekuk Cho and U.S. Attorney Steven Russell announced that Jason C. Olderbak, 35, of Grand Island, was sentenced June 21 for unlawful possession of official U.S. insignia following an HSI investigation.
June 28, 2023
|Child Exploitation
Justin W. Hardin, 46, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to 27 years and three months in federal prison without parole.
June 28, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston removed Jaconias Rosa Pereira, 51, to Brazil on June 23. Pereira, an unlawfully present citizen and national of Brazil was wanted for homicide there.
June 28, 2023
|Child Exploitation
Merle G. Daniels, 44, was charged in a three-count indictment alleging that he used a victim under the age of 16 to produce child pornography from Nov. 9 to Dec. 9, 2022.
June 28, 2023
|Child Exploitation
Keenon Green, who used social media to try to recruit someone he believed was a 16-year-old female into prostitution, was sentenced in federal court to 144 months in prison on June 14.
June 27, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
Jorge Luis Guaraca Villa, 30, was flown from Alexandria, Louisiana, on a flight coordinated by ICE’s Air Operations Unit to José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
June 27, 2023
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
Four Mexican nationals were arrested yesterday in Houston, Marshall and San Antonio, Texas, for their alleged roles in a tractor-trailer smuggling incident that resulted in 53 deceased and 11 injured undocumented individuals on June 27, 2022.
June 27, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston removed a wanted foreign fugitive to Brazil on June 23. Daniel Domingos, 26, is wanted in Brazil for drug trafficking.
June 27, 2023
|Financial Crimes
According to court documents, Emmanuel Samuel, 39, was part of a group of fraudsters who sent personalized letters to elderly victims in the United States, falsely claiming that they represented a bank in Spain.
June 27, 2023
|Child Exploitation
Alfredo Velazquez-Hernandez, an unlawfully present citizen of Mexico, was sentenced by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri’s Southern Division to 36 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons followed by three years of supervised release for one count of transfer of obscene material to a minor following an HSI Springfield, joint law enforcement partner investigation.
June 27, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
The man is subject to an active foreign criminal warrant in Jalisco, Mexico, issued on April 4, 2013, for aggravated homicide.
June 26, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
Consistent with the ICE protocols, the appropriate components have been notified about the death, including DHS OIG and ICE OPR.
June 26, 2023
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking, Financial Crimes
Maria Mendoza-Mendoza aka La Guera made her initial court appearance June 23 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
June 26, 2023
|Narcotics
In just two days, HSI San Juan interdicted 434 kilograms of cocaine across Puerto Rico in conjunction with CBP’s AMO and the DEA.
June 23, 2023
|Partnership and Engagement
HSI El Paso’s IMAGE program’s new partners are the Region 19 Education Service Center and Workforce Solutions Borderplex. The two businesses renewing their memberships are Mission Chevrolet and El Paso Communication Systems, Inc.
June 23, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
ERO Boston arrested an unlawfully present Irish citizen June 13 in Billerica. He is identified as a member of a transnational criminal organization and is wanted for passport fraud, theft and multiple motor vehicle offenses by authorities in the Republic of Ireland.
June 23, 2023
|Human Smuggling/Trafficking
According to the indictment and other court records, two citizens of Guatemala — Ronaldo Galindo Lopez-Escobar aka Tio Roni, 45, of Guatemala City, Guatemala, and his sister, Rosa Adriana Lopez-Escobar aka Tia Rosa, 38, of Phoenix — allegedly led the Lopez crime family, a transnational criminal organization principally involved in human smuggling with operations in Guatemala, Mexico and the United States.
June 23, 2023
|Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
HSI New York Special Agent in Charge Ivan J. Arvelo and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams announced June 22 that the United States filed and settled a civil forfeiture action against $12 million derived from the sale of stolen Southeast Asian antiquities by indicted antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford. 
June 23, 2023
|Narcotics
On June 23, U.S. District Judge Greg Kays sentenced Michael Brandon Pedrino to 160 months of incarceration to be followed by five years of supervised release as part of a plea agreement related to drug distribution and firearm possession.
June 22, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
The United States removes foreign nationals – according to U.S. law – who lack a lawful basis to stay in the United States. This policy applies to all noncitizens regardless of nationality.
June 22, 2023
|Enforcement and Removal
Nathan Kharim Melendez, 25, of Mexico, is wanted in Mexico for the criminal charge of causing multiple injuries with a vehicle and abandonment of persons (fleeing from the scene).
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